Life in the Fleet The Are Only Two Kinds of Helicopter Pilots… December 1993 I’ve been a student for so long, the Fleet is like a mythical Promise Land where there is only milk and honey and I will finally be an actual Marine helicopter pilot! As soon as I check in,...
Spring 1993 - Beginnings and Endings... [Author note: It will probably help if you read AMST-1/Intro and AMST-2 before reading this one for background and context.] When Marines Still Wore Choker Whites - in the background, the CO holds our newest daughter We are...
In my Introductory post to this series, I promised I would “…explain the origins of the picture of Yours Truly… from 11 Aug 1994.” Different view of the crash site on 11 Aug 1994 - yeah, I had a camera and we took pics to prove it was still up on the hill when we left...
I had defended Marines and sailors facing a lot more time or charged with much more serious crimes, yet I was more nervous than I had ever been before walking into court.
The anthrax vaccine’s manufacturer has had an interesting ownership history, beginning in 1968 as the Michigan Department of Public Health (MDPH).
The first use of a human anthrax vaccine took place in 1954.
I didn’t even knock on Justin’s door, I busted in like Kreamer on a Seinfeld episode.
More can and must be done, however, to rebuild trust, to avoid repeating past mistakes, and to prevent future health consequences similar to those experienced during and after the Gulf War. Our troops must be assured that when we send them into battle, they will be...
In the late 1980s, the Department of Defense had a problem. It was anticipating the need for better means to combat chemical and biological agents and, to the point, the U.S. was way behind the Soviet Union in its chemical and biological warfare preparedness.
Before 1962, vaccines, drugs, and other such products did not undergo nearly the kind of scrutiny that they do today in order to become licensed. It wasn’t until the thalidomide disaster of the 1960’s that federal regulation of drugs came to be what it is today.
The Declaration of Independence’s most trenchant historical observation is coupled with its boldest claim: “that governments are instituted among men, [and] deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
Major John Hitesman graduated from the Norwich Military Academy a year before I graduated from Boston University. Like me, Hitesman had a “life” before becoming a lawyer.
The first principle enunciated in the Nuremberg Code is that “the informed consent of the subject is absolutely essential.”
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